Izzie's Way Home

Once again, "The Asylum" notoriously rode on the coattails of a vastly superior and more successful film. Technically, it was "Finding Dory", which was released the same year as this, but "Izzie's Way Home" is clearly ripping off "Finding Nemo". For all of you parents and grandparents who were tricked into buying this for your kids, believing it was "Finding Nemo", you all have my sympathies.

For starters, as par the course, the animation is totally shoddy and lazy. The aquatic characters lip sync is way off, their fins barely move, even when their swimming at high speeds, and their expressions are stiff and lifeless. There's even a scene where the human yacht owner simply floats across the floor instead of walking. All of the scenery and backgrounds looked bland with frequent copying and pasting.

Despite having a few remarkable names on board, all of the voice acting rendered the characters robotic at best, or annoying and disgusting at worst. There's a pompous British fish as the villain who suffers no consequences for his actions, a trio of snobby Mean Girls-like fish (one voiced by Tori Spelling) who bully Izzie, and a sea cucumber named Carl (Joey Fatone...yes really) who belches and farts constantly. Besides that, nothing they do elicits any feelings from the viewers, not even Howard and Izzie's father and daughter relationship.

The camera work is clunky and disorientating as it zooms around all over the place, especially during the action scenes and when shot from a first-person perspective.

In the end, this was The Asylum's second worst animated film after Trolland rating wise. But in a twisted sort of way, Trolland was marginally better than this, because at least it was so amazingly bad, it could make you laugh. Izzie's Way Home, on the other hand, is just plain, mind-numbingly boring!